Is it possible to use album art to select which music to play? - ie
click on the album cover to play the album... I couldn't see how to do
this in myth music (or any other linux music program)
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I came across this one... It has to do with $HOME not being defined.
My fix was to put at the start of the script:
HOME=/home/mythtv
and then it all started working. Nasty gotcha
Andrew
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> On 12/13/05, Marius Schrecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
You can track which process is reading/writing the disk by doing:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
Then use 'dmesg' to tell you process is using the disk. Turn off
tracking again with
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
Hope this helps
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No. It does playback only, but it does it pretty well.
On 10/12/05, Mark Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What I meant to say, is does it record .nuv files created by the
> Software encoder? I've not got a PVR card in my system.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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Hi Lachlan... Is it possible that in the upgrade your apache got
upgraded from 1.3 to 2? If so, it's using a different config file. I
had this problem and it took ages to figure out what was going on.
You need to ensure that apache2 is configured for
- mod_env (mine was built-in on Ubuntu 5.04)
-
I had trouble getting mythweb going last night as well. Chris, maybe
you should include some hints in the README about how to enable
mod_env and mod_rewrite for apache virgins.
In my case, it was as simple as doing:
ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/rewrite.
So... Is it possible to have network design with a boss machine which is
- low power, embedded (eg, NSLU, MSS)
- always on
- runs the database
- runs a webserver
- runs a central fileserver for recordings etc.
- wakes up capture-capable boxes when there is recording to do
- has no frontend
. Unless your master backend is a capture-less low power always-on
system running on embedded hardware with only 32MB Ram and no possible
VGA/TV display. I've not even started looking at this, but it should
certainly be possible.
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What? Why??
Hardware MPEG accel really was the only reason most of us were using
the Unichrome driver!
Did you guys fall out or something?
What's the status of inclusing in Xorg? I thought that it was all
going just hunky dorey and the next major xorg would include this
stuff, reducing the
Jeez, I didn't realise I've been playing with myth for that long.
Sorry, please disregard my advice :-)
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Ben -
Charlie Brej wrote a script to do channels.conf -> mythtv database
conversion. As John says this functionality is now in SVN, but not
18.x. If you don't want to move to bleeding edge, then maybe this is
the easiest way for you. It certainly worked for me about a year
ago.
http://brej.or
Here's my understanding of what's going on. Note that this could all
be wrong - someone please correct me if it is :-)
tv_grab_dvb only populates the program listings, not the channel info
required to tune the box to a TV station. I have this on my system
(and it works fine) but only because I go
Check out http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main
Looks like it does recordings and live TV. I've not got one (yet?)
so I can't comment on how good it is.
Anyone tried the KISS?
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Yes of course you're right, by PC standards the epia is tiny
that's partly why I got one.
but there's one thing I forgot to mention. I'm planning on cracking
open whatever box(es) I have and building a hifi-sized custom case.
The mainboard on the DSM and MVP boxes is way smaller than 7in squar
I've been following with interest recent discussions about cheap,
small, silent, low-power frontend boxes. Looking at replacing my Epia
M10k with something silent and perhaps smaller. Contenders for me are
Roku Picture bridge, MediaMVP, Kiss DP-1500, D-Link DSM320, Epia
fanless Me6000/Sp8000, Xbo
> I use it all the time. Brilliant. Commercial skip is one problem; I
> also (UK) have some problems with widescreen.
>
> But what a fantastic box for the price.
>
> Rick
What are the widescreen problems? Is it possible to do widescreen at all?
Andrew
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Do they ship internationally?
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Try doing
sudo chmod +s `which mythfrontend`
You'll need the root password.
That should give mythfrontend SUID permissions and you ought to be
able to run realtime thread.
I'm not convinced that this is the whole solution though. If the
thread gets behind, the audio should not go all chirpy whic
I'm thinking of getting one for mythtv and music. Can you do simple
FF/REW to skip commercials? That's good enough for me.
What's the software like for image display? I read somewhere that it
was not really usable due to not freeing the memory after displaying a
picture.
Is there any way to selec
My mythconverg database is now about 35MB, and I'm starting ot look at
embedded devices to host it, so it would be nice to have the DB
smaller if possible.
Not knowing much about SQL, I did this to figure out which tables are
eating all that space:
mysqldump mythconverg | grep -n "^-
There's an option in mythtv-setup to '"Follow symlinks when deleting files"
(3rd screen of General Setup) I think that will do what you want
cheers
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Of course, you're correct and I agree with you that displaying non-TV
output is far superior on a monitor.
I was talking about the quality of the TV picture. The fast response
time of the picture on a monitor is actually a disadvantage when
displaying a 25Hz interlaced TV picture, especially for t
This is what I was going to do (replace my TV with my good quality LCD
computer monitor) until I tried it out. The picture quality is
simply FAR better on a TV than on a monitor.
And also TV looks FAR better on an old fashioned CRT than an LCD or
even a plasma TV. Sure, they are more convenien
Can you connect a USB printer to it? This would probably tip me over
the edge into buying one!
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Some investigation shows that SI Parser is very leaky, devs are aware already.
Seems happier when compiled without --enable-dvb-eit, stabilising at 120m
Still - that's way more than I thought an application such as this
needs. Maybe we should do a bit of profiling...?
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Apace is eating all my RAM, and I'm sure I don't need 95% of what it's
doing. Its only task in life is to serve mythweb.
Is anyone running mythweb on anything other than apache?
cheers
Andrew
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Wow! I didn't expect the numbers to be so high. I just checked on my
own combined FE/BE system, and the backend is over 400MB.
What's all that memory doing?
1614 mythtv16 0 405m 214m 31m S 0.0 45.5 0:01.80 mythbackend
1651 www-data 16 0 144m 7924 139m S 0.0 1.6 0:03.21 apache
Nick, this looks great. If I were going to design a screen layout, it
would be just like this. I'll be trying it out soon
cheers
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One thing I don't understand is why we have a delay between starting
to write to the ringbuffer and displaying to the screen.
Isn't it possible to stream directly from the tuner to the frontend
while writing to the ringbuffer at the same time, and then only switch
to reading data from the ringbuff
> Your wife needs to change her surfing habits.
NO! THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT.
Especially when she's your wife. Even when she's wrong.
This top has been discussed to death in recent months, and there's
basically two camps:
1) Nothing's wrong, all we need to do is change our surfing habits.
2)
What's the least memory I can get away with on a slave backend with 2x
DVB tuners? The box will likely be a fanless EPIA 5000, and it won't
be doing anything else at all.. So, it'll only have kernel, DVB
drivers, network (inc WOL), mythbackend.
Is 32MB sufficient, or do I need 64 (or 128?) My
Nice. Are you cannibalising a mouse to get the wheel? I thought about
doing that,
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Have you thought about using a Griffn Powermate?
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I'm considering rearranging my setup as follows, and I need some advice.
Currently I have a single box, with 2x DVB cards, which is on all of
the time. In order to reduce noise and power consumption, I want to
build another v. low power backend box to accomodate these cards and
hibernate when not
>From looking at the code, 'winamp' has to be lower case in LCDd.conf.
A better solution would have been to use stricmp or strcasecmp in the
code fragment below, thus saving everyone's time and frustration. I
wish people would use case insensitive compares in their code mode. I
think more programm
Is LCDd running - what does "ps -ef | grep -i lcd" show?
If not, try running it on the command line. You should get a message
on the screen. I think you need to get at least this far before
worrying about myth.
The daemon ought to get started by "/etc/init.d/LCDd start"
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Hmmm. Works for me.
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Right. I have 2x DVB cards in a mini-itx M10K Nehemia system. There is
no problem with performance for simple record/playback, but heat is a
big issue. I don't want to load up with fans due to the noise, so I
have it in a large box with one large fan and I've slowed down the
CPU to 666MHz. If I'd
I fixed this by playing with 'DisplaySize' in xorg.conf. Horribly
non-obvious, but it worked for me.
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On 24/08/05, matt lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm... well, something I did must have fixed the issue, because
> everything starting Thursday is correct... not sure why the
> --refresh-today didn't actually refresh the current data, but I can
> live with the offset until then.
>
> Thanks,
> M
I'll check. I've not tried using the keyboard since I got the remote working :-)
cheers
Andrew
On 16/08/05, ffrr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Wilson wrote:
>
> >It seems to take ages for my remote keypresses to have an effect in
> >myth (often >1 s
It seems to take ages for my remote keypresses to have an effect in
myth (often >1 second though not all the time) . If I run irw, the
remote signals are received instantly.
Any ideas where to start debugging?
cheers
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How do I get over the 'Alert - myth is not a registered protocol' box?
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OK, so where can I buy a USB Lirc capable dongle?
I'm keen to try out an idea I have where the computer lives in a
cupboard, but the IR sensor, LCD screen, powermate knob, card reader
and dvd drive all hang off a USB hub in a pretty box in the living
room in total silence :-)
Does anyone know if Is it possible to use lirc with a USB->Serial
converter and a serial receiver plugged into it? I tried it once, but
I think my converter was duff because nothing at all worked with it..
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I had problems with channels for a while, and I put up a one line
script to /usr/local/bin/startchan - rememeber to do chmod +x
/usr/local/bin/startchan afterwords.
echo ' use mythconverg; update cardinput set startchan="5"; ' | mysql
hope this helps
Andrew
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My disk is permanently nearly full, and I want to be able to change
the autoexpire setting of a recorded program, so the ones I really do
want to see don't get over-written.
I can do this before the program gets recorded, but I can't see how to
do this with programs that are already recorded. Is t
If you're using DVB, you can sync the time using "dvbdate -s -f ".
This has the advantage of not requiring a network.
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FYI, I've got a pair of LR6650 cards, but they can't tune to my
*strongest* mux, and I've not had time to delve into the driver
innards to try to fix it.
YMMV as they say.
I only got them because some guy on ebay was offloading them cheap.
The aerial passthrough is a nice feature.
Andrew
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Yep, I got that too. Does it sound like audio fragments are being
mis-ordered? In speech you can sometimes hear the start of a word
before the end, or some parts of a word being repeated.
Does it go away when you pause/unpause?
My best guess is that there is a bug somewhere in the mpeg audio code
That was it, thanks a lot! Actually, it had the same behaviour in
18.1. I had to change xmltv offet from AUTO to NONE. I have no idea
why this happened now, as I have not fiddled with myth or the timezone
on my pc
Anyway, it's working now - much indebted
cheers
Andrew
Hmmm, that sounds like a different problem. I still have audio, it's
just a bit 'chirpy'
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I am experiencing (and have done for about a year) audio problems
which seem to occur most often after a skip forward. It sounds like
the audio is out of order. It is happening less frequently than in
previous versions, but it is still definitely happening.
My setup is Via M10k with unichrome driv
My guess is that you're doing software mpeg decode for some reason. I
got smooth playback in software by going into setup/tv/playback and
disable deinterlacing. Treat this as a diagnostic step rather than a
solution :-)
If you're getting smooth playback in this scenario, then you need to
figure ou
Hi Dean - You could try mounting the network share using samba. It
will appear as a directory in your filesystem which you can tell myth
about
Check out www.samba.org or google for 'samba mount' for some examples
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I got mine from a guy on ebay: Works like a charm.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44961&item=5166775051&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
I did a lot of fiddling with the lirc configuration - it's pretty good
but not perfect, here are my files. I hope you can make use of them:
http:
I have my box (Via M10k) set up with VLD_XVMC and unichrome drivers.
It's working fine, I just checked, and it's sitting at ~60% idle while
recording off 2 DVB cards, AND simultaneously playing back a
recording, with the CPU throttled back to 665MHz using longhaul.
But from looking at top, it
Doesn't ld.so.conf (and LD_LIBRARY_PATH) only apply to loading at
run-time? I think you need to supply the correct -L and -l options to
gcc to get it to link correctly at compile/link time. I may be wrong.
I'm using xvmc and unichrome on my M10k, and boy does it do a good job!
Andrew
Fantastic, I was going to do something like this myself.
One thing: how much work would it be to have the album cover as a
method of selecting the album you want to play? That's the one thing
that's really bugging me :-)
Andrew
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Mat, I feel your pain. While I've not looked into it very deeply, I'd
like mythmusic to go in the following directions, and hopefully do
some of it myself. I'm aware other people are working on mythmusic,
and I don't want to tread on any toes, so has anyone approached music
from the following angle
> Hi All,
>
> Appreciate some help on choosing a EPIA MB that has the best
> probability of success with running MythTv.
>
> The choices I have are
>
> M1000
> MS1200
These two have hardware mpeg accel supported in mythtv
> V800
And this one doesn't. Go for an M series,
>
> I'm
Aha! Unfortunately, X is usually started by scripts calling scripts
and the actual command 'X' is buried god knows where. Is there a
xorg.conf option to do this - I had a google but couldn't find
anything useful?
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How do you set 100dpi?
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OK, so I just found a reference to this in the Troubleshooting
section. I think it should go into the main Debian setup section. If I
didn't find it, someone else might not as well.
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I've just got mythweb going on my Knoppix system, though this tip
should apply to any Debian derivative. Mysql was not listening to the
network, so mythweb could not connect to it.
I had to adjust /etc/mysql/my.cfg as follows:
Comment out the line starting "skip-networking":
#
# The skip-networ
I've been playing with the remote control, thought I'd share some
useful stuff I did. Please feel free to point out any improvements you
have!
When I press the power button I want to switch on/off the monitor and
unmute/mute the sound. I wrote a script to do this, which checks the
current monitor
Thanks. I forgot to look in the archive. I've applied it and it's
compiling now. I'll try it out when I get home.
cheers
Andrew
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Ivor - where I can I pick up your OSD patch?
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Be sure to go down to your local TV shop and look at LCD TV's. They
are slim and sexy, but the picture is just not as good as an old
fashioned tube TV. I thought that my LCD monitor just wasn't optimized
for TV so an LCD TV would be better... but having done the research,
there appears to be a tech
Hmmm, you can only pick it up at a newstand if you happen to live in
the same country that it's published in.
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I have my myth box (Via M10k) running with a monitor mostly, but I can
also hook it up to a TV. I've got two separate xorg.conf files and
have to manually select which one to use when I swap over, and then
reboot to get the TV output.
I could do a nasty hack and have 'tv' and 'monitor' scripts whi
I've not had a lot of luck with mythmusic... I feel kind of stymied.
I've got my CD collection ripped to MP3, one album per directory, with
album cover picture. All I want to do is pick a CD and play it,
preferably by selecting the picture.
Has anyone got mythmusic to do this?
I'm considering jus
Yes, I noticed this last night. I ended up pressing buttons randomly
in frustration and something worked...
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:47:34 -0500, Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> john roberts wrote:
> > I've built 3 MythTV boxes so far - on one of them I can hit ESC and
> > get out of
Check out LIRC, and get a serial IR receiver. I got mine off ebay for
a few quid, and it works like a charm.
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Has anyone played with buffer sizes to determine the minimum safe
buffer size required?
How obtrusive would it be to timestretch output in order to achieve a
bigger buffer over the 1st 10 secs like they do on Radio in case
someone swears...?
Surfability is hugely significant in my WAF :-)
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I've got dual DVB-T tuners in a VIA M10k with debian 2.6.9 and
unichrome drivers. Myth is going nicely, but for a few problems.
I can't get picture in picture going at all. V is supposed to toggle
it on/off, right? Doesn't do anything for me. Each tuner works fine. I
can record off both simultaneo
Sounds like an excuse to play with some profiling tools. Maybe
valgrind can be our friend here... I never did get the hang of gprof.
anyone used kcachegrind?
A.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:39:35 +, Ivor Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The delay may be in the xml parsing to create the window
I have my myth setup almost as I like now. One thing that is
irritating is that it takes several seconds to navigate the main
screens. I mean going to Setup takes about 4-5 seconds (at least), and
then there's another couple of levels of UI to go through.
Is this expected, or have I something in m
Here's what I'm trying to do, has anyone tried this before?
When I put a CD into the drive, I want the system to immediately start
playing it just as a proper CD player would, while at the same time
ripping it to disk so you don't need to put the CD in again.
- Can myth do this? Can any othe
Forgive my ignorance: Can you use this thing as a regular keyboard in X
using lirc? That would just be dandy!
On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 20:09, Stephen Tait wrote:
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> >I use a Sky+ remote with my mythbox. Works like a charm and includes a
> > full size keyboard under the flap. An almost perfect d
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